About ShipToCash

Hi, I'm Peng Zhou. I build small software products, and I write about the unglamorous part nobody teaches you: getting an app actually deployed, taking real money from real users, and not getting into legal trouble doing it.

ShipToCash focuses on deployment, checkout integration, and the operational steps between a working prototype and a public product. This site itself uses Astro to generate static pages, with its content maintained in a Git repository.

Editorial standards

Guides combine explanations, documentation references, and worked examples. An example is not a report of a customer transaction or a production test. Where a guide describes a recorded test, it should identify the environment, steps, and observed result. We do not claim every service or scenario has been tested on the author's own account.

AI tools assist with drafting and code review. AI output is not evidence of first-hand experience. Prices, limits, eligibility, and API behavior should be checked against the linked provider documentation and your own account before use. Publication dates describe publication; update dates describe edits, not necessarily a complete retest of every step.

Hypothetical calculations are labelled as examples. Payment and business-structure articles distinguish provider responsibilities from the seller's local obligations. ShipToCash does not provide individualized legal or tax advice.

When a material error is reported, we review the relevant instructions and update the page. Please use the contact page to identify the URL, affected step, and supporting documentation. If an article contains a paid or affiliate relationship, it should disclose that relationship beside the relevant recommendation.

I also write about AI tools over at AI Kit Guides — same person, different lane. If you're still picking the tools themselves, that's a good place to start.

Recorded verification lab

The payment and delivery guides include a separate source repository with fixed versions, commands, source hashes, and a recorded 45-check run. These are synthetic local experiments, not real customer transactions. Start with the webhook case or the download case to see what was measured and what remains outside the experiment.

What you'll find here

• Deploy — hosting, domains, HTTPS, databases
• Payments — Stripe, Paddle, Lemon Squeezy, taxes (and what to do when Stripe says no)
• Monetize — ads, subscriptions, pricing
• Tools — fee calculations with editable assumptions

Get in touch

Found a broken step? Built something with one of these guides? I'd love to hear about it. The fastest way to reach me is on GitHub, or through the contact page.